Novedades

A unique survivor memoir. Essays that range from heartwarming to brutal. Individual trigger warnings (TW) allow listeners to practice self-care. Washington State native Mary Knight, MSW, experienced various forms of child sex trafficking, sometimes in her own home. Her parents were her pimps. Knight's current life is filled with safety, love, joy, and children. Happily married, she is a child advocate, a foster parent, and a grandmother.

Northern Ireland during the late 60s and 70s was a war zone. The riots and fights between the Protestants and Catholics caused so much harm and destruction that would devastate Ireland for years to come. The bloodiest rioting was in Belfast, where seven people were killed and hundreds more wounded. Hundreds of houses, most of them owned by Catholics, as well as businesses and factories were burned out. In addition, thousands of mostly Catholic families were driven from their homes. Growing up with all of this going on around me from the day I was born, should have been the worst part about ...

Many women know about the sexual abuse of their children, but don’t do anything about it. Hans Georg van Herste reasonably describes how it is that mothers and other near female relatives turn a blind eye or even help the abuser. Based on examples the author doesn’t only explain that this incomprehensible phenomenon is rather common, he also offers solutions and things to think about, in order to arouse women and to bring home to them that no child deserves to be sexually abused.

Hans Georg van Herste had been victim of sexual abuse in his early ages and thus set himself to support other victims as well as homo- and transsexuals. He travelled to India among others to study the ayur vedic healing arts. In the Ayur Veda body mind and psyche are not considered to be separated and each bodily disorder has its psychic cause. The author invested much time, energy and money to show the concerned persons an alternative way out of the crisis. With the “island method” he also created an easy but effective way to prevent sexual abuse of children, discrimination of women, ...

Viktoria Grantz meets a woman on the motorway service area and listens to her story. A deacon, bursting with holiness, sexually abuses his daughters and systematically conditions them. The mother of the girls not only allows this behaviour, but supports her husband in order to leave her alone. On top, the „holy man” not only abuses the daughters of his church colleagues but offers his own ones to other men. At “holy purification rituals” in a nearby small wood the men pretend to release the girls from original sin, while the mothers are watching after having drugged them. A shocking...

Based on true events, this book gives the story of a young girl striving to cope with fear from abuse within the home. From a young age, this tells of a young girl's inadequacies of being born a girl and then the fear from her father's heavy hand. It is a harrowing and emotional story of how a family could appear as the perfect family unit to all around them, but on the inside was suppressed by fear and abuse. This read will undoubtedly make you feel compassion for the children in the story and disgust at how such abuse was allowed to happen and continue. It will hopefully give strength to ...

Abandoned, neglected and beaten by a mother who really did care about her but suffered from her own demons and addictions, left with friends and relatives, as well as placed in foster homes, molested and raped on more than one occasion, including by men considered upright, the little girl who grew up to become an educator, minister, and entrepreneur learned to survive by running away again and again. This heartbreaking and heartwarming story, told with courageous frankness, reveals a deep trust in God that, in the long run, promoted an unbelievable resilience, allowing a young girl, turned ...

“Sometimes he touches me, and I can’t take it anymore.” It was October 31st, 2003—Halloween. The kids had just gotten home from school, and Tracey Wilson Heisler’s family was getting ready to go trick or treating. That’s when her daughter finally confessed that she was being sexually abused. This is the story of one family’s experience with child sexual abuse—made even more difficult by the fact that the perpetrator was her father. In this compelling memoir, Tracey Wilson Heisler, MA takes us through her family’s experiences step-by-step from discovery through recovery. ...

When Marc was a small child, his father committed suicide. When his mother remarried, Marc thought his life was going to be OK but he could never have imagined just what was going to happen... Unloved is Marc's powerful story of sinking into the depths of addiction and despair and then finding the inner strength to rise above it. Marc is now at peace with his past and leads a happy and productive life.